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Dreamweaver MX Release Effort Underway
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Griffin)
Thu Sep 26 16:41:49 2002
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Date: 9/26/2002
To: Members of the MIT Community
Re: Dreamweaver MX Product Release Effort Underway
Product Release Effort Underway
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In late May 2002, Macromedia announced the commercial release of
Dreamweaver MX as a standalone product and as part of its new Studio
MX web content creation suite. The products began shipping to
business and educational consumers in early June. MIT received site
licensed upgrades for Dreamweaver MX over the summer months of 2002.
Information Systems plans to support the standalone product
Dreamweaver MX not the full Studio MX suite.
The IS Dreamweaver MX Product Release Team has been testing the
product for compatibility within the MIT computing environment, with
the goal of establishing a support statement and making the software
available to the MIT community later this Fall.
IS does not recommend that MIT users upgrade to Dreamweaver MX until
the team has had a chance to fully evaluate it. (Even if the software
proves fit for MIT, note that the software has higher system
requirements than previous versions of the product and will not work
on older versions of the Mac OS.)
A Plethora of new Features:
------------
*Mac OS X and Windows XP native
*Potential for SSH-enabled secure file transfer from the Dreamweaver FTP client
*Enhanced template functionality
*Enhanced support for CSS
*New and enhanced accessibility support
*New Macromedia hybrid interface
New features beyond our realm of support:
*MX incorporates all of the application development and database
tools that were in Dreamweaver UltraDev
*Further integration between other MX suite applications including
Cold Fusion MX
*Support for XHTML, XML, .NET, JavaScript, PHP, JSP, and CFML
An overview of Dreamweaver MX is available at
<http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/productinfo/features/index.html>.
Testing
-------
Internal IS testing is underway. We are also providing eager members
of the MIT community the opportunity to test this product.
Software Distribution
---------------------
We will be examining the terms of our volume license agreement with
Macromedia to determine a distribution strategy for Dreamweaver MX.
It is likely that we will proactively distribute a CD with the new
version to MIT community members who obtained version 4 under MIT's
volume license.
More Information
----------------
If you have any questions about the release effort, please contact
the Dreamweaver MX Product Release Team at
dreamweaver-release@mit.edu.
--
Timothy Griffin
MIT Dreamweaver MX Product Release Coordinator
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">Date:
9/26/2002</font></div>
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To: Members of the MIT Community<br>
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Re: Dreamweaver MX Product Release Effort Underway<br>
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Product Release Effort Underway<br>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">In late May 2002,
Macromedia announced the commercial release of Dreamweaver MX as a
standalone product and as part of its new Studio MX web content
creation suite. The products began shipping to business and
educational consumers in early June. MIT received site licensed
upgrades for Dreamweaver MX over the summer months of 2002.
Information Systems plans to support the standalone product
Dreamweaver MX not the full Studio MX suite.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
The IS Dreamweaver MX Product Release Team has been testing the
product for compatibility within the MIT computing environment, with
the goal of establishing a support statement and making the software
available to the MIT community later this Fall.</font><br>
<font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">IS does not
recommend that MIT users upgrade to Dreamweaver MX until the team has
had a chance to fully evaluate it. (Even if the software proves fit
for MIT, note that the software has higher system requirements than
previous versions of the product and will not work on older versions
of the Mac OS.)<br>
<br>
A Plethora of new Features:</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">------------<br>
*Mac OS X and Windows XP native<br>
*Potential for SSH-enabled secure file transfer from the Dreamweaver
FTP client<br>
*Enhanced template functionality<br>
*Enhanced support for CSS<br>
*New and enhanced accessibility support<br>
*New Macromedia hybrid interface<br>
<br>
New features beyond our realm of support:<br>
*MX incorporates all of the application development and database tools
that were in Dreamweaver UltraDev<br>
*Further integration between other MX suite applications including
Cold Fusion MX<br>
*Support for XHTML, XML, .NET, JavaScript, PHP, JSP, and CFML<br>
<br>
An overview of Dreamweaver MX is available at<br>
<http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/productinfo/featur<span
></span>es/index.html>.<br>
<br>
Testing<br>
-------<br>
Internal IS testing is underway. We are also providing eager
members of the MIT community the opportunity to test this product.<br>
<br>
Software Distribution<br>
---------------------<br>
We will be examining the terms of our volume license agreement with
Macromedia to determine a distribution strategy for Dreamweaver
MX. It is likely that we will proactively distribute a CD
with the new version to MIT community members who obtained version 4
under MIT's volume license.<br>
<br>
More Information<br>
----------------</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">If you have any
questions about the release effort, please contact the Dreamweaver MX
Product Release Team at dreamweaver-release@mit.edu.</font></div>
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<div>Timothy Griffin<br>
MIT Dreamweaver MX Product Release Coordinator<br>
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